John Lennon on LSD #8

It was a moment of cultural significance when The Beatles, who were deemed as four whiter than white characters who could never put a foot wrong, admitted their affinity for the psychedelic drug LSD. The drug had only just become somewhat common as a recreational party enhancer during the mid-sixties and, when John Lennon and George Harrison took their first hit under the tutelage of the ‘Demon Dentist’ John Riley—who apparently ‘dosed’ the two Beatles during a night on the tiles in the springtime of 1965—they would never look back and the world would be forever thankful for the renewed creative vigour. While The Beatles were no strangers to drugs prior to Riley’s dosage in 1965, having exp...View all